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Flash Code Lock for PCs
Brains instead of brawn
This system was designed to eradicate the anarchy that reigned on a school’s computers. Conventional password protection could not be utilized and the old key lock was too easily tampered with and bypassed. Highly objectionable information was being downloaded from the Internet and files being deleted all the time. To no avail, the guilty party was always conveniently dead or in hyperspace! A failsafe physical lock was urgently needed with total control and hence the Flash PC Lock was born!
Materials
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PCB
Component list
Resistors:
(all SMD, 5%, case shape 0805)
R1,R2 = 22k
R3,R4,R5 = 1k
Semiconductors:
D1 = 1N4148, SMD, case shape 0805
D2 = zener diode 5.6V 500mW, SMD, MiniMelf case
IC1 = PIC16F628A-I/SO, SO18 case, programmed, Publishers order code 050107-41*
Miscellaneous:
K1 = 9-way sub-D socket (female), straight pins
9-way sub-D connector shell case
PCB, ref. 050107-1 from The PCBShop
Disk, PIC source and hex code files, Publishers order code 050107-11*.
CD-ROM, PC resident software, Publishers order code 050107-81* or free download (approx. 20 MB)
Flash PC Lock Software Guide, free download # 050107-12.zip
* See Elektor SHOP pages
(all SMD, 5%, case shape 0805)
R1,R2 = 22k
R3,R4,R5 = 1k
Semiconductors:
D1 = 1N4148, SMD, case shape 0805
D2 = zener diode 5.6V 500mW, SMD, MiniMelf case
IC1 = PIC16F628A-I/SO, SO18 case, programmed, Publishers order code 050107-41*
Miscellaneous:
K1 = 9-way sub-D socket (female), straight pins
9-way sub-D connector shell case
PCB, ref. 050107-1 from The PCBShop
Disk, PIC source and hex code files, Publishers order code 050107-11*.
CD-ROM, PC resident software, Publishers order code 050107-81* or free download (approx. 20 MB)
Flash PC Lock Software Guide, free download # 050107-12.zip
* See Elektor SHOP pages
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